Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

At the Baltic Port of Ust-Luga, around 100 km west of St. Petersburg in Russia, export capacity is being expanded further by the port logistics company Ultramar. This first-time customer of SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH has ordered equipment for th... Read Full Article

Thanks to a great deal of hard work and an impressive new batching plant, Croydon-based company EasyMix Concrete are now officially BSI accredited, having achieved both BS EN 206-1 and BS 8500.Last week, the EasyMix team went down to the ... Read Full Article

Flow Patrol, Cornwall’s number one drainage solutions company, has taken delivery of a Volvo ECR18E compact excavator from SMT GB’s utility dealer for the Southwest of England, Plant and Engineering Services, following a succes... Read Full Article

JCB is suspending UK production until at least the end of April as a result of the coronavirus crisis and will continue to pay employees unable to work, the company announced today. The firm’s nine manufacturing plants i... Read Full Article

The Hyundai High-Walker (HW) crawler excavator is specifically designed for demanding forestry work, the factory-built machine has the capability to work like a Trojan in challenging and tough environments...Leigh Dalgleish, sale... Read Full Article

Students construct a show garden for the Bavarian State Horticultural Show 2020“Climate Move” motto represents principle of sustainability in horticulture and landscapingLiebherr provides compact l... Read Full Article

Global tiltrotator manufacturer Engcon sums up this year's major construction industry event, the Conexpo 2020 in Las Vegas, as a resounding success. Represented on stands and with product demonstrations across the entire exhibition with machi... Read Full Article

For almost 51 years, stevedoring company, ZHD Stevedores, based in Dordrecht in the Netherlands, has been using Bobcat skid-steer loaders to clear the holds of ships and to move material around so that the ... Read Full Article

PhosAgro has ordered eight Chain Bucket Elevators for its Metachem Plant near St. Petersburg in Russia from AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH. In 2014 AUMUND received its first order from the Russian fertiliser industry from the PhosAgro Metachem Pla... Read Full Article

A maintenance manager strives for efficiency at a leading UK cement works near London. He knows about cement production after working in the industry for nine years before serving as the plant’s maintenance manager where he looks after its e... Read Full Article

G Simpson (Builders) Ltd of Beauly, near Inverness, has taken delivery of a zero swing Volvo ECR25D compact excavator complete with an Engcon Tiltrotator. The machine has been supplied by SMT GB’s utility equipment dealer for the north o... Read Full Article

JCB is today stopping production at all of its UK manufacturing plants as disruption resulting from the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic causes an unprecedented reduction in global demand. The company is halting production for the rest... Read Full Article

W M Donald Ltd of Netherley, Stonehaven, has recently added a twenty-two tonne EC220E and a twenty-five tonne EC250E to its ever-expanding plant fleet...The groundworks and civil engineering firm is a longstanding user of Volvo c... Read Full Article

JCB today celebrated a unique milestone as its 750,000th backhoe loader rolled off the production line. The landmark machine was driven off the line at the company’s factory in Rocester, Staffordshire – the very location w... Read Full Article

Bobcat has appointed Peterborough-based RTC Plant Services Ltd (www.rtcplant.com) as the new Authorised Bobcat dealer for Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire in the UK. RTC is now re... Read Full Article

Macaulay Askernish Ltd, a privately owned civil engineering contractor headquartered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, has taken delivery of two new Volvo EC140E excavators for a dedicated 21 kilometre utilities contract on St... Read Full Article

Tower Hamlets has become the first borough in London to rubber stamp a road made partly from old recycled tyres that would once have been destined for a landfill site.Working with Tarmac, the company behind the innovative technology, Towe... Read Full Article

Decision based on performance and versatilityA cost-effective machine and a comfortable working environmentThe family company Rokemann: serving customers for over 20 years"With its great versa... Read Full Article

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has launched UK Concrete, a new public and political advocacy vehicle for the UK’s concrete industry.UK Concrete’s principle aim is to proactively engage with political stakeholders and p... Read Full Article

JCB is ending short time working at its UK factories and reverting to a five-day working pattern. Around 4,000 JCB and agency shop floor employees have been working a 34-hour week for the past fortnight due to anticipated compo... Read Full Article